And so it begins...again.
from Ireland:
3 Oct: Tweet: Alex Berenson, ex-NYT
Umm what? ***The @who now estimates that 750,000,000 people have gotten the ro? Which, at 1 million death, would put the death rate at 1 in 750 (even with overcounting, etc) - or 0.13%. That’s the lowest estimate I’ve ever seen. Say it with me: IT’S THE FLU.
LINK Irish Times
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1312180625412038656
4 Oct: Tweet: Alex Berenson, ex-NYT
***Hey @drmikeryan @who - do you stand by that estimate of 750 million infected with #SARSCoV2 - and thus a death rate (IFR) of 0.13%? Or do we have another “clarification” coming?
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1312526649494126595
Berenson’s reply to an anti-Trump tweet:
5 Oct: Tweet: Alex Berenson, ex-NYT
Die? He looks about ready to play the back nine.
It’s the flu, okay? ***That’s what the @who numbers say - 0.13% IFR if Dr. Ryan’s estimate of 750 million infected is right. We’ve blown up the world and screwed over our kids for the flu. And it’s time we stopped.
REPLY TO TWEET Molly Knight, Senior Staff Writer and Columnist for the @TheAthleticLA. Author of New York Times Bestseller The Best Team Money Can Buy.
Does he have to die for you to take this virus seriously? ETC...
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1312870153584078848
3 Oct: Irish Times: Covid-19: World in ‘for a hell of a ride’ in coming months, ***Dr Mike Ryan (Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme) says
WHO official estimates that 750m people globally have likely had coronavirus to date
by Ronan McGreevy
He estimated 10 per cent as “our best guess” in relation to the global rate of infection to date and those who have antibodies for the virus.
“The problem is there is more than six billion left. Therein lies our problem,” he told webinar hosted by the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) entitled Learning from Pandemics: a Century of Experience...
However, he criticised the lack of a global response to plans to raise some €25.6 billion (US$32 billion) for the Covid-19 accelerator programme to produce diagnostic tools and vaccines when they are available to deal with the virus. Just €3.24 billion has been raised to date...
Dr Ryan said he was “somewhat cynical or at least depressed at the prospect of whether the world will wake up and we will actually see that epidemics are yet another consequence of our poor planetary and ecosystem management...
“We have put almost no defence up against the Earth-killing things that are there such as climate change and infectious diseases.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/covid-19-world-in-for-a-hell-of-a-ride-in-coming-months-dr-mike-ryan-says-1.4370626